Still struggling with the problems. Tried to rebuild the databases manually with the swap activated and all, but still can't make it work. I have no clue where to continue. I found this odd:

empeg:/empeg/bin# ls -la /drive0
total 177
drwxr-xr-x 4 0 0 4096 Jan 2 08:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 502 220 1024 Jul 24 2002 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 155648 Jan 1 09:24 fids
drwx------ 2 0 0 16384 Mar 25 2004 lost+found
empeg:/empeg/bin#

I thought the databases were under /drive0/var ? the /drive0 was empty after the manually partitioning/formatting/flashing, I copied the fids dir from the old drives. Is this ok?

And the player is building the database and playlists in everyboot, not reading them.
Attached Emplode's crashing log. Emplode crashes after the rebuilding databases -bar has completed.
Also attached the serial output of empeg booting, captured with hyperterminal, the breaks are screwed up I guess...

Waiting desperately for new guides d=/